Do cancer patients tweet? Examining the twitter use of cancer patients in Japan

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Tsuya, Atsushi ^a   Sugawara, Yuya ^b   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Narimatsu, Hiroto ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Co occurrence; Communication; Internet; Leukemia; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NEOPLASM; PATIENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84902299185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3298     Document Type: Article

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